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Commentary Gonsalves: Can You Do The Hustle?

Commentary, May, 10 2006 Sean Gonsalves
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The word for this week is "death tax," which is the loaded term used by opponents of what is properly called the estate tax.

Commentary Gonsalves: The Logic of Withdrawal

Commentary, April, 11 2006 Sean Gonsalves
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As we enter the third year of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, the phrase for this week is ''exit strategy'' -- a euphemism for failure in Iraq, based on a growing awareness (finally) across the political spectrum that the Bush administration's pre-em...

Commentary Gonsalves: Don't Lose Sight Of The Real Scandal

Commentary, January, 11 2005 Sean Gonsalves
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I'm a dawg. But I don't like red herring. The word smiths at Merriam-Webster define a red-herring argument or fact as "something that distracts attention from the real issue."

Commentary Gonsalves: Let's Keep It Real, Y'all

Commentary, July, 11 2004 Sean Gonsalves
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About a month ago, when Bill Cosby passionately vented his displeasure with out-of-wedlock births in black America, his observation did contain a nugget of truth. Too many young blacks are conceiving babies before they conclude childhood. Of cours...

Commentary Gonsalves: The Myth Of Being 'Self-Made'

Commentary, July, 06 2004 Sean Gonsalves
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Having examined 160,000 resumes, ResumeDoctor.com "found that nearly half of all job seekers (49.6 percent) used at least one or more vague or inexplicit phrase to describe their workplace skills and experience."

Commentary Gonsalves: How To Skin A Rabbit

Commentary, May, 06 2004 Sean Gonsalves
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Little Tommy had just caught a rabbit. On his way home, walking down a dusty road carrying the furry, squirming little creature he tried to console his captured carrot-eater.

Commentary Gonsalves: The Problem Is The Solution?

Commentary, February, 15 2004 Sean Gonsalves
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Take the cliche - "thinking outside of the box"- and apply it literally.

Commentary Gonsalves: Teaching nonviolent regime change

Commentary, December, 20 2003 Sean Gonsalves
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Peace, like freedom, is one of those things that everybody is "for." That's why when it comes to freedom, discerning wisdom requires that we ask: Freedom for whom (as in "free market" economics and "free trade" policy)?

Commentary Gonsalves: How To Boil Frogs To Taste Like Chicken

Commentary, December, 06 2003 Sean Gonsalves
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A good boiled frog recipe can be found in one of Daniel Quinn's lesser known novels, "The Story of B."

Commentary Gonsalves: Shafted: The Other Side of Free Trade

Commentary, November, 10 2003 Sean Gonsalves
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I think J.S. Mill was right when he said, "He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that." And so I try to familiarize myself with the case being laid out by those who hold the prevailing ideology of power.

Commentary Gonsalves: Bombarded with advertisements

Commentary, October, 08 2003 Sean Gonsalves
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Earlier this summer I was in Stanwood, Washington hanging out with a loosely affiliated group called the "Positive Futures Network."

Commentary Gonsalves: You can get killed for that!

Commentary, September, 03 2003 Sean Gonsalves
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Break out the champagne on Wall Street! A new report is out called "Labor Market Left Behind," co-authored by Economic Policy Institute senior economist Jared Bern-stein and the Institute's president, Lawrence Mishel.

Commentary Gonsalves: 'Give It Up, Turn It Loose'

Commentary, July, 29 2003 Sean Gonsalves
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'Give It Up, Turn It Loose'

Commentary Gonsalves: From Charity To Solidarity

Commentary, July, 07 2003 Sean Gonsalves
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Recently Dennis Halstead, John Kogut and John Restivo were released from prison after having spent 18 years in the big house for the 1985 rape and murder of 16-year-old Theresa Fusco.

Commentary Gonsalves: The Wisdom Of Fools?

Commentary, April, 30 2003 Sean Gonsalves
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The conservative philosopher George Satayana is one of several people who has been credited with having coined the phrase: those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it - the implication being that to repeat, at least, certain parts of histo...

Commentary Gonsalves: Support Our Troops

Commentary, March, 19 2003 Sean Gonsalves
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As a combat veteran who served in a tank battalion stationed out of Marble Mountain during the Vietnam War, my father taught me two important lessons:

Commentary Gonsalves: The threat of civil rights?

Commentary, February, 26 2003 Sean Gonsalves
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When you hear the phrase "March on Washington," what's the first thing that comes to mind?

Commentary Gonsalves: From Ocean Drive to ÔPareconÕ

Commentary, January, 27 2003 Sean Gonsalves
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ItÕs been said: money canÕt buy happiness. For a long time now, that maxim has dueled in my mind with an idea found on a refrigerator magnet that used to be in my grandmotherÕs kitchen (God rest her soul).

Commentary Gonsalves: From Ocean Drive to ‘Parecon’

Commentary, January, 27 2003 Sean Gonsalves
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It’s been said: money can’t buy happiness. For a long time now, that maxim has dueled in my mind with an idea found on a refrigerator magnet that used to be in my grandmother’s kitchen (God rest her soul).

Commentary Gonsalves: ÔPeace is made with enemiesÕ

Commentary, January, 14 2003 Sean Gonsalves
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How do you explain the presidentÕs threat to invade Iraq, in keeping with the ÒpreventiveÓ war prescription laid out in the September 2002 National Security Strategy Directive, while he talks about diplomacy in dealing with North Korea?

Commentary Gonsalves: ‘Peace is made with enemies’

Commentary, January, 14 2003 Sean Gonsalves
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How do you explain the president’s threat to invade Iraq, in keeping with the “preventive” war prescription laid out in the September 2002 National Security Strategy Directive, while he talks about diplomacy in dealing with...

Commentary Gonsalves: A Rebel Agaist The Claus

Commentary, December, 31 2002 Sean Gonsalves
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As I write this, the snow is falling outside my apartment window. So IÕve

Commentary Gonsalves: Kissinger?

Commentary, December, 09 2002 Sean Gonsalves
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YouÕve got to be kidding?

Commentary Gonsalves: Looking For The Devil

Commentary, November, 07 2002 Sean Gonsalves
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ÒUnfettered accessÓ and Òmaterial breach.Ó On the surface, it all seems so

Commentary Gonsalves: Welcome To The Future

Commentary, August, 31 2002 Sean Gonsalves
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As a kid who grew up on the Jetsons and sci-fi space movies, I was disappointed when Òthe futureÓ arrived at the stroke of midnight, Dec. 31, 1999.

Commentary Gonsalves: On Becoming a Wal-mart Greeter

Commentary, June, 24 2002 Sean Gonsalves
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Charles Leach describes himself as a 62-year-old, silver-haired, overweight, wing tip shoe-wearing president of a small company that manufactures textile screen printing inks - "not exactly the 'neo-hippie anarchist' the media picks out as the typ...

Commentary Gonsalves: Open-toe sandals, closed minds

Commentary, June, 21 2002 Sean Gonsalves
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One columnist called them kids with "open toe sandals and closed minds."

Commentary Gonsalves: Who cares about Africa?

Commentary, June, 04 2002 Sean Gonsalves
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Who cares about Africa? Me for one. And the Bush administration apparently does, too. ThatÕs what BushÕs $10 billion aid proposal for Africa and the Bono and OÕNeill 10-day tour of sub-Sahara Africa was all about. WasnÕt it?

Commentary Gonsalves: The Social Safety Problem

Commentary, May, 04 2002 Sean Gonsalves
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Yeah, yeah, criminals "deserve" this and they "deserve" that. But if we can

Commentary Gonsalves: Why Black History Month?

Commentary, February, 21 2002 Sean Gonsalves
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The idea was first envisioned by a man recognized as ÒThe Father of Negro HistoryÓ Ð Carter G. Woodson.

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